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Midweek Roundup: Treasury Targets Ransomware Payments, Bitcoin ATMs Draw FBI Attention, and More

U.S. officials issued criminal charges and sanctions against a pair of foreign hackers who allegedly made tens of millions of dollars from ransomware schemes, and simultaneously blacklisted three services providers and Estonian cryptocurrency exchange Chatex for laundering the funds, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More Estonian authorities concurrently revoked the license of IZIBITS OU, one of the three providers linked to Chatex, ERR.ee reported. More The FBI warned that fraudsters have taken to directing victims to buy cryptocurrency with cash at any of the 26,000 Bitcoin ATMs in the U.S. and use QR codes to transfer the funds to them, CNBC reported....

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